Blood family
By: Anne Fine
Publisher: Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Children's Publishers UK; Doubleday UK
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780857532404; 9781448157853
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Abused children; Juvenile fiction; Families; Adoption; Foster home care; Social workers
Description: Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his pale face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven. Rescue comes, but lasting damage has been done.